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Harry R. Sokal

Known For
Production

Known Credits
3

Gender
Male

Birthday
February 20, 1898 (128 years old)

Place of Birth
Craiova, Dolj, Romania

Harry R. Sokal

Biography

Harry R. Sokal (also Henry R. Sokal), born February 20, 1898 in Craiova and died March 7, 1979 in Munich, was a German film producer of Romanian origin and of the Jewish faith.

Harry Sokal produced 22 films between 1926 and 1977. He specialized in the production of films related to the mountain, mainly those of Arnold Fanck and Leni Riefenstahl. After the National Socialists seized power in 1933, he emigrated to England before settling in France in 1937. In 1941, he moved to the United States where he worked for the small production company Monogram before return to Germany in 1949 where he founded the production company Henry Sokal-Film. He produced his first post-war work, Föhn, which was a remake of his greatest success, The White Inferno of Piz Palü. Until his death, he worked with the Munich studios Bavaria Filmstudios located in Grünwald. His most famous post-war film was The Hero and the Soldier in 1958 with Otto Wilhelm Fischer, based on the comedy by George Bernard Shaw.

Harry Sokal was married to actress Charlotte Kerr. He died in 1979 and is buried in Grünwald.

Known For

Production

1978Rusalka...Production Manager
1978Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?...Production Supervisor
1977Twilight's Last Gleaming...Production Supervisor
1960Heldinnen...Producer
1959And That on Monday Morning...Co-Producer
1958Arms and the Man...Producer
1956Holidays in Tyrol...Producer
1940They Met on Skis...Producer
1932The Blue Light...Producer
1931The White Ecstasy...Producer
1929The White Hell of Pitz Palu...Producer
1926The Holy Mountain...Producer
1926The Student of Prague...Producer

Editing

1970The Delegation...Editor
1940They Met on Skis...Editor

Directing

1970The Delegation...Assistant Director
1940They Met on Skis...Director

Writing

1956Holidays in Tyrol...Screenplay

Acting

1975Film Emigration from Nazi Germanyas Self
1972The Red Chapelas Isisdor Springer
1951German Film Awardas Self